- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Two-Can Publishing Ltd (31 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854342010
- ISBN-13: 978-1854342010
- Product Dimensions: 26.6 x 21.6 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,082,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Part of the Oxfam 50th anniversary publishing programme, this is a look at Oxfam's involvement in the developing world. Using cartoon strip illustrations, it examines the causes behind the biggest problems facing developing countries and looks at possible solutions to the North/South divide. It discusses, trade and money, borrowing and lending, food and farming, the reasons why food doesn't get where it is needed, lack of water and the related diseases, floods, taps and pumps, water in the cities, a Third World child's school day, literacy, work and money and the way it is spent, leisuretime in various countries and step-by-step instructions for the making of a gourd rattle such as that used in Sierra Leone, and a group of worry dolls from Guatemala There are also suggestions for fun-to-play board games intended to help readers understand some of the complex problems of how the world works. Royalties from the sale of the book got to OXFAM
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